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President Trump said he ordered the strike because it was in America’s "national security interest".

According to the Mirror the US launched up to 60 Tomahawk missiles from Navy ships in the Mediterranean on Thursday night (April 6).

It is believed they bombarded the Al-Shayrat airbase, south of the city of Homs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, an ally of the Assad regime, has denied that the Syrian army had access to chemical weapons.

He condemned the US bombing as "an act of aggression against a sovereign state delivered in violation of international law under a far-fetched pretext."

A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "The UK Government fully supports the US action, which we believe was an appropriate response to the barbaric chemical weapons attack launched by the Syrian regime and is intended to deter further attacks."